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Shin Bet arrests Gazan bombmaker who entered Israel on humanitarian permit
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleHamas recently sent an explosives expert into Israel using an Israeli humanitarian entry permit, with the aim of setting up an explosives lab in the West Bank and launching bomb attacks against Israelis, the Shin Bet security agency says today after the man’s arrest.
A Shin Bet statement says Fadi Abu al-Sabah was recruited by Hamas in July of 2018 and trained by Hamas’s military wing for about a year. He was taught to create explosives and bombs and instructed on how to successfully pass through the Erez Crossing into Israel.
The agency does not say exactly when al-Sabah entered Israel, but notes he was arrested by Israeli police in the Arab Israeli town of Taibe in May of this year.
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